MULTI-PURPOSE AMPHIBIAN Russian patent published in 1998 - IPC

FIELD: seaplane manufacture; rescue at sea. SUBSTANCE: aircraft has fuselage, wing, vertical and horizontal tails and double-flow turbojet engines. Aircraft is provided with lift fans mounted in wing and in tail unit and additional engine arranged in tail section of fuselage. Lift fans are arranged in pairs with each double-flow turbojet engine and are connected with engines by means of mechanical drives. Exhaust nozzles of engines are swivel in construction and are provided with adjustable dampers; fuselage is provided with fairing to which float-type separable module is suspended. Fuselage has side hatches, extensible lifting devices and extensible remotely-controlled thrusters mounted inside it. EFFECT: enhanced efficiency of rescue at sea within wide range of weather conditions due to avoidance of limitation of water landing depending on wave height due to vertical landing and take-off and due to operation in hovering. 5 cl, 5 dwg